The for-profit college chain Apollo­ Group jumped after second-quarter profit and sales beat estimates, even as enrollment fell. While sales in the period declined 13 percent to $834.4 million, they were higher than the $824.7 million average of analyst estimates. Net income fell to $13.5 million, or 12 cents a share, from $63.9 million, or 51 cents, a year earlier.
Total enrollment at the Phoenix-based company’s University of Phoenix fell 15 percent, to 300,800 from a year earlier, the company said.